York County, PA Population By Ancestry in 2021 (ACS-5Yrs)

Updated on March 3, 2024.

Based on the US Census ACS-5Yrs estimates, in 2021, among the 454.61K York County, PA population, 146.19K had German ancestry (32.16%), 110.75K had Unclassified ancestry (24.36%), and 77.22K had Other Groups ancestry (16.99%).

The chart below shows the top 10 ancestry groups, and the table below shows both the number and percentages for all ancestry groups.

You can see similar information for other Pennsylvania counties, and for Pennsylvania.

York County, PA Percentages of Ancestry of Population in 2021
German
Unclassified
Other Groups
Irish
English
American
Italian
Polish
Scottish
French (except Basque)
York County, PA Population By Ancestry in 2021
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Ancestry Number of Ancestry Percentage of Population (%)
German 146191 32.16
Unclassified 110746 24.36
Other Groups 77218 16.99
Irish 54285 11.94
English 36468 8.02
American 33081 7.28
Italian 29294 6.44
Polish 14007 3.08
Scottish 7494 1.65
French (except Basque) 6981 1.54
European 5663 1.25
Scotch Irish 5352 1.18
Dutch 4399 0.97
Pennsylvania German 3997 0.88
Welsh 3889 0.86
Swiss 2778 0.61
Russian 2720 0.60
Subsaharan African 2686 0.59
British 2358 0.52
Hungarian 2038 0.45
Swedish 1941 0.43
Slovak 1910 0.42
Norwegian 1761 0.39
Greek 1649 0.36
Ukrainian 1581 0.35
African 1552 0.34
Eastern European 1402 0.31
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) 1122 0.25
French Canadian 980 0.22
Lithuanian 977 0.22
Scandinavian 882 0.19
Croatian 796 0.18
Austrian 769 0.17
Czech 650 0.14
Jamaican 466 0.10
Romanian 432 0.10
Serbian 401 0.09
Egyptian 392 0.09
Brazilian 358 0.08
Northern European 350 0.08
Slovene 335 0.07
Canadian 329 0.07
Portuguese 318 0.07
Lebanese 308 0.07
Yugoslavian 308 0.07
Danish 306 0.07
Ghanaian 265 0.06
Czechoslovakian 262 0.06
West Indian 257 0.06
Iranian 237 0.05
Finnish 174 0.04
Bulgarian 154 0.03
Slavic 153 0.03
Armenian 149 0.03
Haitian 145 0.03
Ethiopian 139 0.03
Nigerian 136 0.03
Australian 129 0.03
Syrian 119 0.03
Kenyan 108 0.02
Turkish 89 0.02
US Virgin Islander 76 0.02
South African 66 0.02
Barbadian 65 0.01
Macedonian 63 0.01
Guyanese 58 0.01
Arab 50 0.01
Moroccan 46 0.01
Trinidadian and Tobagonian 44 0.01
Belgian 40 0.01
Israeli 38 0.01
British West Indian 37 0.01
Belizean 32 0.01
Estonian 29 0.01
Sierra Leonean 21 0.01
Celtic 20 0.00
Cypriot 18 0.00
Albania 15 0.00
Latvian 13 0.00
Iraqi 10 0.00
German Russian 10 0.00
Luxembourger 10 0.00
Zimbabwean 9 0.00
Somali 8 0.00
Maltese 7 0.00
New Zealander 5 0.00
Sudanese 4 0.00